Israel

Airlines short of employees find it difficult to cope with masses of travelers, which has reached 90% of record travel year 2019.

Under a joint plan by the Finance, Interior, and Housing and Construction ministries, Israel aims to start building 280,000 housing units by 2025, or 70,000 on average a year – compared to around 55,000 a year over the past decade.

In recent weeks, the military has conducted a series of military exercises involving combat planes over the Mediterranean and warships in the Red Sea, in order to prepare for different "scenarios" facing Iran.

Mansour Abbas also doesn't rule out joining a coalition with Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich and far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Housing and Construction Minister Ze'ev Elkin, the man widely believed to be the brains behind the coalition's formation, is looking quit the government and serve as Jewish Agency chairman.

In response to IDF decision to open more combat positions to women, over 700 religious high-school and yeshiva students sign petition informing IDF chief of staff they will refuse to serve in mixed-gender combat units.

Chamber of the Holocaust on Mount Zion defaced by Hebrew slogans accusing "the Zionists" of perpetrating the Holocaust.

Former senior defense officials warn Defense Minister Gantz that a failure to extend the application of Israeli civil and criminal law in Judea and Samaria would force Jerusalem to release hundreds of terrorists from Israeli prisons.